In the same boat here John where having my licence to drive a manual car taken away so forced by disability to drive more expensive automatics.
I also have a remote control plus steering ball that currently cost £480 and my current car is the 6th car to have that control so since being disable that has cost me £2,700 at today’s prices not to mention, considering a grand extra for automatics over manual, so another £6,000 plus also not forgetting the £1.4k for hoist so despite what the media and dumb asses in Westminster think this disable malarkey has cost me near on £9k just for being disable.
That of course does not account for the countless pavement scooters I’ve had to buy to accommodate ever smaller cars I’ve been forced into because of high AP’s on larger cars.
A word media and lowlifes from Westminster like to throw around is “Affordable housing” and it gets me because what is affordable housing? That brings me to another get out of jail free card for lowlifes and that is what is “substantially and permanently adapted vehicle”. The manufacturers of the steering ball plus remote control I have to have by law proudly put in their literature that the device is easily removed to make the car easy to sell on to abled bodied buyers in future. So like affordable housing it means nothing when it comes to tax laws that has more holes in it than a Swiss cheese.